![]() ![]() Beach users concerned with the potential for exposure to elevated bacteria concentrations are advised to avoid water contact recreation during and immediately after rain events.The public is better served overall by timely notifications based upon preliminary counts than by the procedural delay needed to act upon confirmed counts. In order to provide as rapid a response as possible the City proactively posts (and de-posts) beaches and makes public notifications based upon preliminary bacteria counts made available before final results are confirmed.This is done in case the elevated bacteria concentrations persist. Beaches are posted and the public is notified 24 hours after an elevated concentration of bacteria occurs. Results are available the day after the samples are taken because it takes time to culture the bacteria in order to obtain an accurate estimate of their abundance.Samples are analyzed for three different bacterial indicators of impaired water quality (total coliform, Escherichia coli/fecal coliform, and enterococcus) by the quanti-tray and membrane filtration methods.Ocean Beach (at the foot of Balboa Street, at the foot of Lincoln Way, and the foot of Sloat Boulevard). ![]()
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